If you need to know how far Twitter has fallen, an asteroid sample collected by NASA touched down on Earth this morning and I never saw #OSIRISREx (or any variation) trending, not once.
"Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates." https://jenson.org/text/
Now THIS is an ad that deserves to go viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaXPxnntOOk
Boring Report is an app that aims to remove sensationalism from the news and makes it boring to read. https://www.boringreport.org/
Taylor Swift drove record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million Instagram followers to take action. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/taylor-swift-voter-registration-day-b2415569.html
The next time you find yourself with a strange yearning to inhale the damp, musty air of Pirates of the Caribbean or walk along charming Main Street U.S.A., consider these possible reasons for it. https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2023-09-19/disneyland-disney-world-addiction-travel-craving-science
“Kind is about being invested in other people, figuring out how to help them, meeting them where they are.”
This is useful advice. And it also makes me appreciate my old team, even more than I already did.
https://kind.engineering
Johnny Cash has been everywhere man http://www.johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com
An interview with internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who talks about what he and fellow internet creators did right and what he might do differently, knowing what he knows now. https://connectsafely.org/internet-pioneer-vint-cerf-on-what-they-did-right-and-what-went-wrong-podcast/
John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission. https://apnews.com/article/openai-lawsuit-authors-grisham-george-rr-martin-37f9073ab67ab25b7e6b2975b2a63bfe
The White House unveiled a new climate jobs training program that it says could put 20,000 people to work in its first year on projects like restoring land, improving communities' resilience to natural disasters and deploying clean energy. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200483937/biden-climate-corps-job-training
USA Today, that is not what VHS tapes look like, https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/back-to-the-future-goonies-and-classic-disney-vhs-tapes-are-being-sold-for-thousands-on-ebay/ar-AA1gNds7
For your #design appreciation: "Welcome to RamenHaus, home of rotating ramen. So far, 54 bowls have been photographed, slurped and posted." https://ramen.haus/
I bought myself a present. I'm so very pleased with myself about it. https://amzn.to/48mQRcc
TIL Iceland has a phallological museum https://guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/michael-chapman/the-icelandic-phallological-museum
Developers want managers who'll help them solve business and technical problems, who'll protect them from unnecessary office politics and who will help them meet their personal career goals. But programmers are...different, I wrote back in 2008. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534393/tips-for-managing-and-motivating-developers.html
Just over 50% of listings now contain prospective salary information — more than triple the proportion seen in early 2019. https://www.hiringlab.org/2023/09/14/pay-transparency-majority-of-us-job-postings/
When London's burial grounds started to overflow, a rail route began for mourners - and their dead. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66507599
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